BOY STORY

Thanks to the performances and improvs of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, the bromance I Love You, Man is the funniest film this year.

Not necessarily great for anything but the jokes, which in most cases are enough, the comedy takes a pretty silly premise and runs with it until just before it runs out of steam.

Rudd plays a girls' guy, Peter Klaven - meaning he'd rather hang with the gals than the bros - who is about to get married. Needing a best man for his wedding, he starts auditioning possibilities with man dates, which, of course, get misinterpreted or just go wrong. He throws up on the macho husband (Jon Favreau) of his fiancee's best friend, while having to fend off sexual advances from a guy who gets the wrong impression.

Not illogical seeing that Peter seems more feminine than his gay brother, Robbie (Andy Samberg), who's a trainer at a gym.

Segel's Sydney Fife shows up at the open house that Realtor Peter is hosting to sell the house of former "Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno. The two connect over hors d'oeuvres, even though Sydney - a self-employed investor - is there to pick up cougars.

Sydney is as secure in his manhood as he is oblivious to what an ass he could be. He lives on the beach with his garage turned into male sanctuary. (Though Judd Apatow isn't officially on the credits, this is definitely from the Apatow house.) Peter and Sydney ultimately bond over the rock band Rush.

The John Hamburger film is enhanced by a fun cast. The Office's Rashida Jones is the right fit as Peter's bemused girlfriend, Zooey, while Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Favreau, Jaime Pressly and Ferrigno all give the ensemble a nice feel.

Lessons in teen life

The Class (Entre Les Murs). $28.96/ Blu-ray $39.95

Documentary-like, French director Laurent Cantet used a small crew and three high-definition video cameras to film The Class. Set in the equivalent of a U.S. junior high school, the students are a mix of French whites, Arabs, Africans and Asians who are hooked up with cell phones like all teens. They face the same questions that students face here - how do they fit in in a society that is changing ethnically.

Frangois Bigaudeau plays a fictionalized version of himself. The real-life teacher wrote the autobiographical novel on which the movie is based. The students are also real-life students, and the entire project was shot in workshops over a year. What you see - other than the English subtitles - will look very familiar to anyone who has cast even a casual eye at our own teens. Cantet makes what could have been either boring or sensationalized into emotionally fascinating.